NAVI MUMBAI, May 3 -- Cidco has identified 100 hectares (around 250 acres) at Karanjade in Panvel, near the functional Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA), for its flagship International Educity project. Officials said the development will host the country's first integrated cluster of leading foreign universities and position Navi Mumbai as a global education destination. Envisioned as a world-class knowledge township, the project will bring together international university campuses, research centres, innovation hubs, student housing and allied infrastructure within a single, master-planned zone. Educity forms a key pillar of Cidco's broader airport influence area blueprint, which also includes Medicity, Aerocity and other specialised growth districts planned around NMIA. Cidco Vice Chairman and Managing Director Vijay Singhal said, "The country's first education city will come up in Navi Mumbai. Centres of the world's top 10 universities will be established here." He added, "This education city is taking shape on nearly 250 acres near Navi Mumbai International Airport. The site is within a three-to-four-kilometre radius of the airport and is connected to NH-348 and the multimodal corridor." Institutions publicly linked to the proposal include University of York, University of Aberdeen, University of Western Australia, Illinois Institute of Technology and Istituto Europeo di Design....